Eros Visible

Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy

James Grantham Turner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2017
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-21995-1 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual analysis of artworks and careful reading of related texts, James Grantham Turner demonstrates the surprisingly close connection between explicitly pornographic art and the canonical works of masters such as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Full of new discoveries, this volume explores the passionate response to antiquity and how a new sex-positive philosophy not only encouraged an increased accentuation of sensual and erotic themes in art, but influenced the sexual cultures of both the court and the art studio. With an interdisciplinary approach that draws on a wide array of visual and textual erotica, Turner offers the first broad, synthetic history of the classically inspired and unambiguously lascivious sensibilities behind some of the most sublime artistic achievements of the Renaissance.

James Grantham Turner is the James D. Hart Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	340 color + b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	2087 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	0-300-21995-4 / 0300219954
ISBN-13	978-0-300-21995-1 / 9780300219951
Zustand	Neuware